Waukegan

Waukegan is a city in Illinois and the county seat of Lake County. It was founded on 31 March 1849, and its name means "little fort" in Potawatomi. During the mid-19th century, Waukegan was an industrial hub and a center of the abolitionist movement, and the construction of the railroad through Waukegan in 1855 stimulated the city's rapid growth. During the 1860s, the city came to have a substantial German population, and, after the 1890s, large numbers of Swedes, Finns, and Lithuanians arrived. During the 1920s and 1930s, African-Americans arrived in Waukegan during the Great Migration, and racial tensions eventually ran high. In 2016, Waukegan had a population of 87,901 people, with 44.82% being Hispanic, 30.9% white, 19.21% African-American, and 3.58% Asian.